{"id":892196,"date":"2026-10-23T18:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/892196\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T18:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:58:12","slug":"nhl-edge-stats-behind-mcdavids-historic-start-for-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/892196\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL EDGE stats behind McDavid\u2019s historic start for Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Connor McDavid<\/a> is off to the best start of his illustrious NHL career for the Edmonton Oilers, and his advanced metrics are fueling what could be one of the highest-scoring seasons in history.<\/p>\n

The Oilers captain had his third five-point game of the season against the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday, becoming the fourth player in NHL history to 30 points (31) in 10 games or fewer to start a season. The 29-year-old is on pace for 260 points in 84 games, which would be 45 more than Wayne Gretzky<\/a>\u2019s current single-season record (215 in 1985-86). McDavid also became the second player in history with three five-point games over his first 10 games of a season; Mario Lemieux<\/a>\u00a0had three five-point outings over his first eight games in both 1992-93 and 1988-89.<\/p>\n

McDavid, who has nine 100-point seasons in his career (third most in history behind Gretzky\u2019s 15, Mario Lemieux\u2019s 10), had his highest point total in 2022-23 (153). McDavid also ranks third in history (minimum 100 games played) in career regular-season points per game (1.56) behind Gretzky (1.92) and Lemieux (1.88). Gretzky, meanwhile, had four 200-point seasons, all with the Oilers, and is the only player in NHL history to accomplish that feat.<\/p>\n

McDavid looks to add to his trophy case this season; he is a six-time Art Ross Trophy<\/a> winner (2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2026), three-time Hart Trophy winner<\/a> (2017, 2021, 2023), and also won the Maurice \u201cRocket\u201d Richard Trophy<\/a> once (2023) and Conn Smythe Trophy<\/a> (2024; when Oilers lost to Florida Panthers in Stanley Cup Final).<\/p>\n

Here are three EDGE stats storylines surrounding McDavid\u2019s torrid start:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor McDavid is off to the best start of his illustrious NHL career for the Edmonton Oilers, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-892196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}